范德瓦尔斯层状物因包含着丰富的元素，所以形成了多种不同结构的晶体。其中，1984年Shechtman等人发现了准晶体的概念，即具有准周期平移序和禁止的旋转对称性的固体相。接着在1998年，Conrad等人发现了一种Ta1.6Te的稳定准晶体相，这引起 ...

准晶体超构表面（Quasicrystal metasurfaces）是一种二维人工光学材料，其亚波长超构原子以准周期平铺方式排列，由于其新颖的光学特性而受到广泛关注。据麦姆斯咨询报道，在最近的一项研究工作中，通过实验证明了一种双功能准晶体超构表面，可用于同时生成 ...

This new design breaks the mold by positioning these meta-atoms in a more complex, quasicrystal pattern. Quasicrystals, while ...

在数学的铺砌领域，寻找“爱因斯坦”是许多数学家追求了半个多世纪的一座“圣杯”。在“帽子”出现之前，数学家需要多种形状来组成非周期铺砌块。比如数学家发现的首个可以覆盖无限平面的非周期铺砌是由2万多种形状组成的。在后续的研究中，数学家们在逐渐地缩小这一数 ...

Determining the positions of the atoms in an icosahedral quasicrystal had previously been a considerable challenge. This study provides an accurate description of the three-dimensional atomic ...

Whereas the atoms in crystals repeat at regular intervals, like the squares of a chessboard, quasicrystal atoms do not. Instead, they do something rather more mysterious: quasicrystals can be ...

Physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a ...

A team from Cambridge has crafted a novel two-dimensional Bose glass, a phase of matter where all particles remain fixed in ...

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The research leading to the discovery was published in Nature. Read the news story on the University website. The first report of a liquid quasicrystal was made by Professor Ungar and Dr Zeng in 2004.

A simple cavity-based technology capable of simultaneously measuring optical rotary dispersion and circular dichroism within milliseconds offers ultra-high sensitivity and unprecedented spectral ...

will lecture on quasicrystal materials; Sir Colin Humphreys (University of Cambridge, England) will speak on GaN and microscopy; and Karl Leo (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology—KAUST, ...